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We keep asking what Democrats can say to win over voters. Trump lies repeatedly. It is hard to keep up. Trump is disgusting enough that voters may take it out on his surrogates. There are close Governor’s races in Georgia and Florida. Trump racism works for Trump, but fail for others. Steve King of Iowa is a white supremacist who finds himself in a close race in a deep red district. People are waking up. The state’s largest newspaper and several companies have withdrawn support from King.

Jeff Sessions was interrupted by a United Methodist pastor while speaking at a Federalist Society. The pastor quoted from Mathew 25. The passage was about serving the hungry, immigrants, the poor, and those in prison. That pastor was removed peacefully by security. Another pastor continue to quote from the Bible. The response of the Federalist Society members was to Boo the quotes from the Bible. Sessions labeled the Biblical quotes as an “attack”. You cannot make this stuff up.

Roxanne Gay has a column in the NYT encouraging young people to vote. Gay is not naive and notes that Democrats are not perfect. She points out that this is not about selecting the lesser of two evils because the Republicans are evil white the Democrats are the farthest thing from evil in this election.

The first funerals for victims of the Pittsburgh massacre began today. Trump came to Pittsburgh despite local leaders asking him not to come. Trump’s visit meant some people who came to honor the slain had to stand a block away from the synagogue. Trump did not care.

I’m pumped. People are awakened. We will not win all the battles that we need to win, but we will win some. We will then prepare for 2020. We can’t give up. We can never give up. We need Democrats to have Congressional oversight.

The reason we feel depressed is that we actually listen to what Republicans are saying. Many Republicans I talk to live by a core set of beliefs that Republican mouth but do not follow. They hate being told that they have to sign up for Obamacare but they want health care coverage. They rail about foreigners, but then they can’t find worker to pick crops. They want a strong message sent to Europe about imports, so they support tariffs. They then have to be bailed out by the government because foreign countries won’t purchase US goods. We get angry because we wonder how they can be so stupid.

Then we listen to the pundits supporting the Republicans and we are angered because it is clear that they are lying. We are also amazed by the weakness of the arguments. We are pissed. Then some smartass comes along and tells us that all the Republicans want to do is make Liberal heads explode. We are told that there are no real policies presented by the Republican pundits. Now we are really pissed because someone supposedly on our side things that we are too stupid to realize that Republican pundits want to upset Liberals. We know that. We want to yell “Shut up”.

Next we are told not to take the bait. This is really angering and depressing. Trump starts the day with an ignorant tweet. The news media blasts the tweet to the world. All we are supposed to do is ignore the diversion. Democrats don’t control either part of Congress. The tweet will dominate. The caravan, meaning women and children fleeing rape and starvation, will not reach the border for months. They do not represent a threat. But news media will report on the tweet. Not paying attention to the distraction provided by the caravan is impossible.

We know that the country has to borrow $1.3 trillion to keep the country afloat. But media goes with the tweet. When the Democrats take the House, then the monologue will become a dialog. There will be a true opposition party that will have to be heard.

We are depressed because news media does not see a reason not to lead with the tweet. Come on, November 6.

The subtext here is the Wall Street bailouts and foreclosure wave. All Democratic leaders essentially supported it. This is why there’s grumbling, but no alternatives. The Democrats have really just started their internal debate over big money. https://t.co/8XKgqvJYn2

Brookings Institution fellow Elaine Kamarck on Friday compared President Trump's rhetoric on immigration to "the boy who cried wolf. I think that the president at this point with immigration is like the boy who cried wolf," Kamarck, who also directs the Center for Effective Public Management, told Hill.TV's Jamal Simmons on "What America's Thinking."

What Blair had first conceived of as an elaborate joke was beginning to reveal something darker. “No matter how racist, how bigoted, how offensive, how obviously fake we get, people keep coming back,” Blair once wrote, on his own personal Facebook page. “Where is the edge? Is there ever a point where people realize they’re being fed garbage and decide to return to reality?”....“Nothing on this page is real,” read one of the 14 disclaimers on Blair’s site, and yet in the America of 2018 his stories had become real, amassing an audience of as many 6 million visitors each month who thought his posts were factual.